We have music for you to dance to!

Well 2012 is nearly here and today is a day to party with family and friends.

So, to party you need to music..................and here is a track for you produced by my husband, Calllum, using the music program 'logic' on his mac. Just click on the link below and press play-why not leave a review!

Callum's New Year's Eve music for you!

And what else do you need to party.............dance moves. So I have made a card to get you in the mood-a 'male' version of my Tango card.

Now you have the ingredients for a good party-so go Tango 2011 away-Bring it on 2012!!

Tango the night away!

Love to all xx

A time for thanks

Today I have a thank-you card to share with you. This is for my Mother-in-law, Jean. I wanted to thank her for the lovely Christmas day we spent with her.

I made this card for the challenges at Less is More, Stars and stamps , Crafty Creations.

The flourish is made using my new 'big shot' machine and the sentiment is from Hero Arts.

Enjoy your day x
I

Today lets go for a bike ride.

Not such a good day to go for a bike ride here in London where it is raining, raining and raining some more!

This card is for my sister's friend who likes to mountain bike. Yes, it would be difficult to cycle up a mountain on this bike but I thought the digi image from Mygrafico was gorgeous and had to use it. I have also had this vintage cycle paper from my cousin Lynn (not sure where she got it) and have wanted to use it for while. And to make this card more 'girly' I added a pink ribbon and pink gems on the buttons and star (star was made using my new 'Big Shot' toy!)

I have entered this into My Time Made Easy Sketch #41

Used in card:
Mygrafico posh and trendy digi
Tim holtz distressed burnt corduroy ink
Memento sweet plum and tuxedo black ink
star sizzilits
buttons and ribbon from stash

Lets Dance

Just popping into share a quick card.

This is for a friend who loves to dance and what better dance is there than the Tango. Sorry photo a bit wonky (not due to Xmas cocktails I promise!)

I tried out some new digi paper from Cupcake Cuties and the Tango digi is from Delicious Doodles (such a cool name for a site). The sentiment is from Hero Arts.

I like the Vintage feel to this so have entered into the vintage Stamp and Create challenge and the Colour Q weekly challenge. And the colour challenge at The Sisterhood of Crafters was also perfect for this card.

Callum and I share our craft room-well it is really our spare room-and today we started our own challenge of sorting it out so we can both 'do our thing'. We only got as far as buying a storage unit then both got creating again-him his music and me this card. So tomorrow hopefully we will sort and create again.

Take care x

A bouquet of wishes

Hope you are all enjoying your Christmas.

Santa some how knew that I wanted a 'Big Shot' in my stocking this year. And because I have been a good girl this year he gave me a batch of goodies to go with it. So here is my first card using my new toy.

I used a textured Impression to emboss the pink paper and 2 different size petal sizzlits for the flowers. I found a button, in my stash, the exact same colour as the background 'stampin' up paper and just added some 'bakers twine' to give the card some added texture.
The sentiment is from Pink Petticoat

And here are a few photos taken on Xmas day.

First Callum and his Mum:

And now Callum and his Mum's partner, Joe, doing the traditional Xmas day 'boy' chore of washing up.

Spots and Stripes

Morning all

Are you ready for Xmas yet? Well I am done but I am lucky as I visit family on Xmas day so don't have a big food shop to do.
And tonight is my first Xmas Party this year. We are off to a neighbour's Winter Solstice party-the longest night of the yesr-although Winter Solstice is generally celebrated on 21st Dec, this year it is actually tomorrow. Traditionally this is a day to spend with friends and family. Traditions involve making Xmas presents with your kids, decorationg Xmas Yule Logs and bringing Holly and Mistletoe into the house. Did you know Holly is considered male-prickly with the fertile red berries and mistletoe being the femaie-soft!! Well I had to look all that but found it interesting as I didn't know any of that.

And onto my card-another card for a friend and this time I have used the same sentiment but followed  the spots and stripes Daring Cardmakers challenge.

I had a go at curved edges. I did it free hand and thought it came out o.k.

Enjoy your day x

I used:
Pink Petticoat digi bloomin sentiment
Stampin up paper
Flower and ribbon from my US cousin Lynn-not sure where she got them!
Kanban gem.

Friendship

Morning all,

My card today is for another of my Mum's friends (Mum has put in an order for a few friends and she chose the sentiments which are all from Pink Petticoat bloomin' sentiments)

I have entered this into Clean and Simple's sketch challenge and the 'Friendship' challenge on Crating When We Can

Today I wanted to share with you a photo of my Brother and his family-Lisa, his wife, Chloe and Holly-his daughters. I am sharing this for no reason except that it is Christmas and a time for family plus my niece e-mailed me this photo and I thought they all looked so gorgeous-it was taken this Oct in Turkey.

I have used in my card:
Pink Petticoat digi sentiment
Craft creations paper
Three kings ribbon
Glamour Glitter
button from stash
Woodware punch